A trip in early Feb to Farlington Marshes turned out to be a good idea. This HIWT nature reserve, located just outside Portsmouth, offers good habitat and roosting sites for waders and wildfowl, and on this particular visit I managed to get my first ever decent photo of one particular wader, the Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus).

A Spotted Redshank

The other waders sighted, though not photographed, included Godwits and a large flock of Golden Plovers. The wildfowl were also in their in abundance, the lion share of them Geese, both Brent Geese (Branta leucopsis) and Canada Geese (Branta canadensis).

A Brent GooseBrent and Canada GeeseBrent Geese in flight

There was this white goose amongst the crowd.

White Goose

The other type of wildfowl photographed were a pair of Pintails (Anas acuta), although not too sure if the light coloured is a female or hybrid.

Male PintailFemale Pintail?

Aside from waders and wildfowl there was a couple of Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) about.